The Capitol Hill Community Council is starting 2025 with an effort to gather “great ideas” for the neighborhood.
The group is holding its first ever Great Ideas Festival on Wednesday, January 22nd at 11th Ave’s Hugo House:
We’re inviting all of our neighbors to come together and share their ideas for making Capitol Hill the best neighborhood in Seattle. Based on what we hear at the meeting, we’ll use that to prioritize projects in the next few months, over the next year, and into the future. It should be a really fun, exciting opportunity to dream big for the neighborhood.
Ugly holiday sweaters were on display in December (Image: Capitol Hill Community Council)
The revived community council finished 2024 with a successful holiday party and ugly sweater contest in December. “We had a great turnout, a bunch of folks entered the ugly sweater contest, and we collected eight hefty bags of clothes for Lowell Elementary’s clothing drive,” the group said.
CHS reported here on the revival of the council as the group hopes to grow to better represent residents and people who love the Hill.
Have a great idea for Capitol Hill? Workshop it with some of your closest neighborhood friends in the CHS comments, below.
You can learn more and keep track of updates at capitolhillcommunitycouncil.com.
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Great idea: focus on ending the gang and gun crime on the hill. Another great idea: stop trying to build affordable housing in the most expensive neighborhood in the city.
Who is trying to build affordable housing in Denny-Blaine and Laurelhurst?
Or any new housing there at all? I know it’s always been pitched by the McCaws & Weyerhauser/Quadrant as something from 60-80 something single family homes. But I try to keep hope alive for development of the old Batelle campus in Laurelhurst. Shake that place up I say, even if it’s not perfect urbanism.
Who exactly has been trying to build affordable housing in Madrona and Madison Park?
Want to back up OP in the face of all these unhelpful replies – most expensive neighborhood in town if going by square foot vs property price is usually Downtown, which even though it seems weird to us, usually includes non DT neighborhoods like Capitol Hill.